For a small business, giving money to Jeremy Stoppelman and Yelp is like handing a butcher knife to a serial killer.
Yelp is crammed to the gills with fake reviews and false information, and they have a long history of extorting money from small business people in return for manipulating damaging negative reviews. Many people believe that the negative reviews are written by Yelp employees to motivate business owners to pay protection money to Yelp.
Better go with Citysearch or Zagat or any of the other trustworthy review sites.
brian l.of NY5:54PM September 15, 2009
For a small business, giving money to Jeremy Stoppelman and Yelp is like handing a butcher knife to a serial killer.
Yelp is crammed to the gills with fake reviews and false information, and they have a long history of extorting money from small business people in return for manipulating negative reviews. Many people believe that the negative reviews are written by Yelp employees to motivate business owners to pay protection money to Yelp.
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brian l. of NY 5:54PM September 15, 2009
brian l. of NY 5:48PM September 15, 2009